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KABUL – President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday addressed a gathering of tribal elders from around the province on the importance of the TAPI gas pipeline project that was recently inaugurated in Turkmenistan. The pipeline, which will carry gas from Turkmenistan to Pakistan and India via Afghanistan, has been hailed as a major breakthrough by the international community in terms of ...

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday criticized Europe for lack of independent foreign policy, saying it has partially transferred its sovereignty to the United States. “The problem of Europe is that it does not have its own foreign policy … It has transferred part of its sovereignty to NATO and the United States,” Putin said in a documentary ...

Pakistanis hope that the army’s new chief of staff, Raheel Sharif, will crack down on militants and boost security. But can one man change a corrupt legal system and prejudiced security infrastructure? Pakistan has finally found a hero in General Raheel Sharif, the army’s chief of staff since November 2013. In a short time, he has become one of the ...

AFGHANISTAN: In a statement, on Saturday December 19, 2015, after the inauguration of new building for Ministry of Interior, President Ashraf Ghani stated that the sacrifices and achievements of the Afghan National Security Forces would not be forgotten in the peace talks with Taliban. He also assured security forces that their presence, professionalism and independence will be taken into account ...

KABUL: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Kabul in near for inaugurating the India-built parliament building of Afghanistan, with its construction work scheduled to be completed by the end of this month. Sources in India’s Ministry of Urban Development have told The Times of India that the building and other facilities will be ready in the next fortnight and ...

MUMBAI: India has been the face of countless controversies and protests this year, so it only made sense that amid all this furore people needed a break. No, it wasn’t Kit Kat that helped ease the worry, it was Sunny Leone. According to Google Trends India 2015, the former pornstar is India’s most searched person this year. Even Bollywood megastar ...

MOSCOW: The Russian armed forces have not employed all their capability in Syria and may use “more military means” there if necessary, Russian news agencies quoted President Vladimir Putin as saying on Saturday. “We see how efficiently our pilots and intelligence agents coordinate their efforts with various kinds of forces – the army, navy and aviation, how they use the ...

SANYA: Spain’s Mireia Lalaguna Royo was named the winner of the Miss World 2015 competition on Saturday night in the southern Chinese island resort of Sanya, an event dogged by controversy over China’s refusal to allow Canada’s entrant to attend. Sofia Nikitchuk of Russia was the runner-up and Indonesia’s Maria Harfanti took third place in the final following a lengthy ...

KABUL: Acting Defense Minister, Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, said that Daesh and Taliban have been receiving training at military bases of Pakistan. Pointing to the ISI, Pakistan’s spy agency, he said that the foreign intelligence agency tries to push all the insurgents to Afghanistan in order to show that this is the nest of terrorism. “Afghan security forces will soon launch ...

The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution calling for a ceasefire and political settlement in Syria. The resolution envisions the formation of a unity government and calls for an immediate halt to any attacks on civilian targets. Earlier, agencies leaked the draft of the document agreed by the UNSC permanent members right ahead of the session. The four-page ...